Sentences with word «wistfulness»

The actual ending is the right one — it strikes a graceful mix of wistfulness of melancholy — and more importantly, it does not critique our world in a direct way.

They have been written or directed by those who did not fight and who are now middle - aged, when it is safe for them to indulge in this kind of wistfulness about having missed out on war.

Set in 1979, the picture is suffused with a passion for filmmaking, if also a tinge of wistfulness for that bygone era in filmmaking.

There is a kind of wistfulness in the minds of leaders of the so - called free churches, and a disillusionment with respect to their irresponsible independency.

My hope for the antique technology of the traditional book is simple: that amid all the gee - wizardry of wireless, paperless, boundless libraries, the printed, nonelectronic object that has transported humanity's wisdom, wit, wickedness, and wistfulness from one generation to the next still will find a place in the hearts and hands of students.

And, whereas the battle with despair I hear in Woods, or even in the more general wistfulness of Best Coast, seems heartfelt, some of these bands, such as Veronica Falls and especially Girls Names seem to regard little formulaic sips from the wells of gothy moodiness as de riguer.

Jeffrey Stout has discerned some of these same nostalgic impulses at work among several communitarians, and on that basis he has suggested that many of them suffer from «terminal wistfulness.»

My dad's side of the family is German, though he is not a baker and my grandparents were in a different state (and I don't think they did much baking either), so I feel an odd kind of wistfulness towards these recipes.

I've mentioned them before with some allergy mom wistfulness and might have some good news to share later.

With dreamy wistfulness, old - timers call him a throwback.

It is a pained wistfulness.

The album's just a little over half - an - hour long, and it's all of a piece, conveying casual imagery that meanders from the hands - in - pockets wistfulness of drifting and kicking on trash cans («Knockin» on Your Screen Door») to turning on the TV and looking out your window.

It depicts how this long - established system of chummy collusion between politicians and press, one at times recalled with some anxious wistfulness by both Bradlee and Graham, came to be shattered.

Ms. Wood has a poise and wistfulness beyond her years, and she seems likely to follow the path of the child star Diane Lane into more nuanced adult roles.

Wonderstruck strikes a curious emotional tone, alternating between suspense and quiet wistfulness, with sudden surges of operatic intensity as the two timelines begin to connect.

Irons» fey wistfulness and decrepitude make a moving contrast to Lucy's health and vibrance.

In his best comedies (the two Blues films and 1985's Working Class, as well as 1995's Love in the Time of Twilight), the cartoonish slapstick is leavened with intricate plot structures, intricately constructed set - pieces and an earnest wistfulness underneath a youthful strain of punkish anarchism.

Whilst likely to induce smiles for audiences acquainted with the characters, the continual emphasis on preceding efforts in both the concept and content — complete with music cues — intermittently elicits the intended wistfulness, but not rollicking enjoyment.

Later, that same wistfulness affirms Cyril's role as a surrogate.

But you also start to realize that it will soon be over and you'll have to go back to your day bereft of that wit, imagery and storytelling, essentially nursing an acute case of Wes Anderson wistfulness.

Though at times it threatens to veer off into wistfulness, the film succeeds in dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust from a child's perspective because the story - telling is direct and forthright.

After 2 years down under I still miss living in America every day so I am celebrating the 4th with a little wistfulness and homesickness: -LRB-

Body horror and grotesque enemies abound, and even beautiful environments, like towering castles and fields of flowers, tend to evoke eeriness and wistfulness rather than relief.

Simply constructed using a mix of cultural detritus and film set equipment like old shoes, bottles, and c - stands, the set is dramaturgical but surreal, creating a kind of wistfulness akin to longing to remember the dream you just forgot because you woke up.

Realism and wistfulness slip in and out.

«Deft subtlety disguised as wry, inept wistfulness has always been Mr. Bryan's strength.

A certain wistfulness permeates the new work, which brackets itself between the artist's birth date and the year the internet changed everything.

In our reveries, the order of emotion and memory supersedes that of time and space, and the dreamer like the nostalgic finds herself in many places and none, subject to the detached wistfulness of liminality.

I hear wistfulness when you speak of it.

All those plump pretty pumpkins and the magical book cover (and the cool breeze from Hanna) are diminishing my goodbye - summer wistfulness.

Perhaps she felt pride and wistfulness about the exhibition, about her role in contemporary art, and about herself.

If what draws together all four shortlisted artists for the prize is melancholia and wistfulness for the past, then those qualities are particularly present in the work of Susan Philipsz, the Scottish sculptor who was once rejected by Glasgow School of Art (but accepted at Dundee).

«If the city of Miami Beach were, say, 10 feet high, 20 feet higher, we wouldn't need pumps,» says Bruce Mowry, the city engineer, with more than a touch of wistfulness in his voice.

In his drawings, texts, objects, photographs, and videos, Friedrich Kunath deals with such themes as longing, melancholy, loneliness, wanderlust, and wistfulness from a subjective viewpoint that finds expression in titles like Homesick, I am a stranger here or I may not always love you.

Now that my baby is nine - months - old, I look back on those early days with a mixture of wistfulness and sadness.

In much of our thinking about this story, there is a tinge of wistfulness, a yearning.

And now the horn of age has sounded, with a mellow tone, yet wistfulness; her handsome heart is worn, and on her sleeve — why not?

A metaphysical political theory is not confined to the wistfulness of castles in the air, the dustiness of history's anteroom, or the adding and subtracting of quantitative relationships under a reigning paradigm.

I also experienced a wistfulness about weaning.

I guess there's something about the wistfulness of the last babies that is easing the hurry to get to a smaller place.

There is a wistfulness about his strenuously argued belief that education and critical reasoning are the source of democracy and progress.

In this excerpt, our heroine looks back on her life with melancholy, wistfulness, and resignation as she marches toward a certain end — though even her final musings are shot through with fragile shadows of hope.

A folksy fable defined equally by its whimsy and wistfulness, John Maclean's Slow West unfolds in the wake of the American Civil War as a collection of natives, outlaws, and settlers often meet violent ends in pursuit of land, money, and love.

Even mourning the dead is revealed to be capable of bringing the living closer and being experienced as a communal activity that strengthens a community's (and especially a family's) cohesion, with a gentle streak of wistfulness that prevents loss from being reduced to a colorful show.

But the mid-century sorrows of the real world tether the frivolities of Anderson's make - believe one, lending gravity to the wistfulness and the air of fading innocence that have been among the principal themes of his career.

Redford creates an unforgettable mood of wistfulness and regret, of love lost and found.

As Jack, an dying ex-hippie and environmentalist living in isolation with a daughter (Camilla Belle) who's developed a secret, incestuous love for him, Day - Lewis exudes both a gentleness and a sense of loss, speaking of a former commune with a wistfulness that suggests someone who never really gave up the dream of the «60s even as he watched it die.

Where Bottle Rocket and Rushmore are propelled by the ardor and energy of youth, Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic are characterized more by an air of wistfulness and regret.